"The owner of E6 Cattle Co. in Hart, Texas, where the undercover video
was shot, explains that the calves were being euthanized because of
frostbite."

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Female calves are valuable cattle
chattel. Male calves are worthless.

Fact is, bullets cost
dollars, and killing male calves is the rule and not the exception, and
the horrifying way that male offspring die is the usual way of doing
business on America's dairy farms. It cost more to transport a male
calf to slaughter than the farmer nets at auction.

I took the
opportunity to post a comment on the dairy website following the article.
Rather than moralize, sermonize, or criticize, I felt it would be
appropriate to leave a comment in which every pro-dairy reader shakes his
head and agrees with me, knowing that the official response was
completely filled with bovine feces. I wrote: